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The
three-day "Management Education in the Digital
Age" Conference completed on 14 September
2001 at Hotel Equatorial, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Some sixty speakers from fourteen countries shared
their research and findings to about one hundred
local academic and business audience and an equal
number of attendants from overseas universities
and institutions.
The
conference was jointly organized between Swiss-AIT-Vietnam
Management Development Programme (SAV) and School
of Industrial Management (SIM) of University of
Technology, Ho Chi Minh City.
Three
tracks were in focus: "Management Education
in the Digital Age", "e-Revolution in
Asia", and "Developing knowledge-based
Industries".
Researchers
agreed that tremendous wealth of content resources
available in virtual communities or the Internet.
These resources were further and continuously
enriched by specialists, students and academia.
Other researches also proposed that a comprehensive
model of a well-funded and highly systematically
staff development program should be in place to
optimize the use of such valuable resources. Networking
appeared to be means that draw substantial attention
of researchers. Business simulation and problem-based
learning approach were also recommended to enhance
students' experience of management. Discussions
also recognized that there was a uniqueness within
each nation and this must be a reflected in planning
of management education. Vietnam needed to learn
from, but not adopt without critique, models from
elsewhere in Asia.
Several
challenges, however, were presented with respect
to curriculum design . For instance, the use of
real world relationships of companies and limitation
of case studies & simulations were highlighted.
How to use the concepts of system thinking in
curriculum design and how to use the ideas of
learning and active learning to change classroom
practice were also among issues that raised concerns
of researchers.
Cases of knowledge-based
industry infrastructures and application of information
technologies into business and education were
reviewed and evaluated.
List of sponsors
and supporters (in alphabetical order)
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